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Chapter 753 Chapter 750 One HE Monument

According to Team Mu's instructions, Su Ming'an came to the edge of the inner city, where there is a church.

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[Team Mu (21:45): It seems to have been blown up.It doesn't matter, the emotional resonance device inside should still work. 】

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The church had been destroyed in the flames of war, and red tiles and rubble were piled up all over the place.It is a building before the cataclysm of the century. It stood a Jiazi in the doomsday city, and was eventually destroyed in the civil strife.

Su Mingan stretched out his hand, the ring of time was shining, and pointed his finger at the church.

Immediately, the bricks flew from the ground, and the green dome was automatically spliced ​​together, showing the prototype of the church. In less than ten seconds, it had returned to its original magnificent appearance.

When he opened the door, Su Mingan saw the corpses of many soldiers on the ground.

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[Team Mu (21:45): There are several dungeons near here. It should be that the prisoners had a dispute with the escort team. 】

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Su Mingan passed these corpses, and there was a small back room at the end of the church's red carpet.It is said that there is a resonance device inside.

Pushing the door open with a "squeak", I saw a machine connected by red and blue circuits, with a simple chair next to it, which seemed to be a room for confession or atonement.There was actually an old man sitting on the chair. The old man was half leaning on the chair, his head drooped, his face paler than paper, like a dead body.

Several link wires were pasted around the old man's head, and the machine hummed slightly. The old man was using this emotional resonance device.

Emotional resonance devices are not a good thing - most people have no need to experience anyone's life.For people, this thing is more of a torture tool to disintegrate willpower and punish prisoners.

Su Mingan quickly tore apart the connecting wires, the old man broke away from the resonance, and his body immediately fell forward.

"...Why are you here?" Su Mingan supported the old man's shoulder.

He hadn't expected anyone here.He even suspected that Team Mu deliberately lured him to meet this man.

The old man's eyelids moved slightly, his pupils became scarlet and muddy due to the torment of resonance, and his hair was gray, as if covered with a layer of heavy snow.

He stared at Su Mingan's face for a long time:
"I'm... dreaming?
Although the appearance is different, I have a feeling... You are Lord Luvis, you have come to see me, haven't you? "

Su Mingan frowned: "Yes. Can I still walk by myself?"

The old man leaned on the arm of the chair and tried to stand up, but failed.

Even though the old man's face was haggard and skinny, Su Ming'an still recognized it—the old man was Sen Kelstia.

Sen was the original leader of Fenghuo and their rescue target this time.When Su Mingan sneaked into the building just an hour ago, he heard Sen tell the escort, Rong Yuan, that he would betray Lord Luvis.

Sen's sentence "If I provide you with the situation of Lord Luvis, will you be able to give me back my freedom?", Su Ming'an still remembers it clearly.

As for why Sen appeared here, it may be that the escort team was intercepted halfway, which caused someone to torture Sen.Sen is one of the key characters in the main mission "All things come back to life", and he cannot be allowed to die here.

Su Mingan released the wheelchair: "Come up."

"No, no... how can I use your things..." Sen waved his hands again and again.

"Come up." Su Mingan grabbed Sen's hand, pressed Sen on the wheelchair, and pushed the wheelchair out of the room.

The wheelchair has no energy source, and it is no different from an ordinary wheelchair.The church floor was covered with sticky blood and corpses. Sen leaned on the creaking wheelchair, panting violently.

Cold sweat kept rolling down the old man's forehead, his pupils dilated and shrunk, and his fingers trembled unconsciously.

"How long have you been using the resonance device?" Su Mingan said.

"Ten... 13 minutes." Mori replied.

"Why use it?" Su Mingan frowned.Noah held on for 15 minutes before passing away.Mori is very old, 13 minutes...

Sen just gasped.

Su Mingan was pushing a wheelchair, surrounded by the corpses of soldiers. This church was originally destroyed by artillery fire, but it was the ring of time that restored it to its original state. Most of these soldiers were crushed to death by bricks and stones.Only Sen, who was hiding in the back room, was still alive.

Not sure what's going on here.

Due to the cold weather, Sen's pupils were covered with a layer of mist. He looked at these corpses, his eyes seemed to cry, but his expression remained in an extremely calm state, forming a contrasting tranquility.

Su Mingan pushed the wheelchair, bumping and bumping all the way, Sen suddenly whispered:

"……sorry."

"What?" Su Mingan didn't hear his words clearly.

"Lord, I'm sorry..." Sen said.

Su Mingan's expression remained unchanged, and even his eyes did not tremble.

"It's okay, I'm used to it." Su Mingan said.

It was just a betrayal, he had heard it with his own ears, but he wasn't angry.

He had learned—to value what should be valued and to ignore what should be ignored.If you are betrayed, it is common; if you are hostile, it is normal; if you are loved, you accept it as an extra gift.If you don't learn to ask extravagantly, you won't suffer too much pain.If you don't cherish a treasure, you won't be too sad when you lose it.

He looked straight ahead, and the patterns on the church door were extremely gorgeous, as if they were paintings of some ancient myths, containing the buried wishes of people before the cataclysm of the century.The old man in the wheelchair kept coughing, his gray hair trembling uncontrollably.

"...I'm sorry, my lord."

Ke Sen's next words changed Su Ming'an's expression.

"Obviously I wanted to tell the wrong information so that they can't find your trace, but he was seen through by the Wei army and tortured to this point..."

Sen choked up and said:

"Obviously arranged an escape plan and wanted to help liberate people in other dungeons, but in the end because of incomplete information, he was blocked in the church and watched the church collapse and everyone died..."

"I obviously wanted to actively link to the emotional resonance device, at least to leave some information before being crushed to death, but found that I couldn't escape from the resonance at all, and I had to be rescued by you..."

"I can't have your wisdom, I'm just an old man with a weak body... The only thing I have is the heart to share your worries, but even this is not worth mentioning..."

"Lord, I am old."

Cloudy tears rolled down the old man's cheeks.

"I'm just an ordinary person, without any aura of deification, and I'm not as smart as you..."

"I'm really tired, and I don't have the energy to run to you without hesitation. Even though I always wanted to help you, I always made things self-defeating. After all, I am not favored by the world..."

"..."

The light in Su Mingan's eyes trembled.

——None of these people who betrayed him actually betrayed him?
Whether it's Tretia, Yaowen, or Sen, if there is a traitor among them...

What kind of human beings did the ruined world cultivate?
Su Mingan left the church quickly, and the heavy rain fell on the heads of the two in an instant.Between the dark streets and alleys, black blood mixed with gasoline flows into the sewer.

At this time, the news from the Mu team popped up, saying that the nearest soldier was stationed one kilometer away, but there was no medical equipment there, and the emotional resonance was irreversible.

Su Mingan stopped in his tracks.

There is no point in healing.

They stand under one roof.

He lowered his head and looked at the old man in the wheelchair. His gray hair was covered with heavy rainwater, and looked like crystal diamonds under the dim street lights.The old man turned his head slowly, with his head full of diamonds.

Those eyes were like flames, and the flames in them seemed to burn endlessly.

At this moment, Su Ming'an suddenly wanted to get angry. He wanted to question this world copy, what exactly did it ask him to save?air?

——Why did he come to this world of ruins?
——Could it be that he was specially asked to witness the death of others?
——Is it just to let him experience the loss again and again?

"Lord, don't try to save me. I'm not as valuable as Xi and Noah. I'm just an old man who has nothing to do with the overall situation." Sen said:
"I didn't want to live either, I just wanted to die with those church kids."

Su Mingan took a breath of cold air.

"Lord...I have seen many dead soldiers. Before they died, they always held my hand for help, so that they had time to say goodbye to their families, even though they knew in their hearts that I couldn't do it at all." Sen said:
"It's always like this. Only when you lose something do you know how to cherish it...Fortunately, I'm lucky. I didn't die in a secret room with blood all over my body, and I couldn't breathe fresh air until I died."

"I tried the emotional resonance device for you. If you use it, you can skip the most painful resonance time at the beginning."

Su Mingan still didn't speak.

Ten seconds later, he spoke:
"Sen, do you remember Yaowen?"

The heavy rain slanted against his face, as if touching his skin.

"I remember, he was a very good boy. I was in my 30s when he lured away the mechanical army," Sen said.

"He is also a hero, although no one knows about it." Su Mingan said: "After Song Yaowen passed away, I discovered that there are so many like him in the ruined world, thousands of Yaowen."

"For more than 40 years, no one in this world has been alone," Sen said. "You can trust our souls as much as you want."

The hazy yellow light flickered on the old man's face, as if stroking his wrinkles of different shades. After a while, blood came out from Sen's mouth.

It was the same as Noah's symptoms before he died.

Emotional resonance is like a deadly poison, irreversible.If you can't make it through, you can't make it through.

"Let's turn around and go back to the church," Sen said. "At least let me go back to those dead children."

Su Mingan silently looked at the distant buildings for a few seconds.

In the darkness, the lights were not visible, and the broken walls and ruins were like fallen black dragons.

After a moment, he turned and pushed in the direction of the church.

He pushed the wheelchair very hard, and his joints were covered with bluish white.

"Dead people represent liberation, but they are the most cruel to living people. Those who survive just bear a huge responsibility and cannot die." The voice of the old man was very gentle in the rain:
"This thought, ever since Xia Sheng committed suicide, has been running around in my mind repeatedly, and I can't relieve it."

"Lord, I hope you don't blame human beings. Some of them were really selfish back then and wanted to hand you over, but they only cared about their families—in fact, there will always be someone willing to go through fire and water for you."

"Don't open your mouth, don't publicize, don't show off, and don't rehabilitate."

"I know." Su Mingan thought of Tretia, and her last look: "I know."

He suddenly heard the old man's laughter.

Hoarse, with blood, not clear in the rain.The corners of the old man's eyes were slightly raised, and the wear marks of the years on his face showed sufficient marks.

"Actually, sometimes, you are like a young child. You can't see that you have experienced such a long time... It's a bit offensive to say this. But in the end, I still want to tell the truth."

Sen held the armrest and turned his head slowly, the blood at the corner of his mouth had soaked his collar.

"Really?" Su Mingan said.

He couldn't remember a time when he showed a boyish side.

"When you came to Fenghuo in that year in 32 years, I thought you were an extraordinary person. Later, Fenghuo became District [-], District [-] became Doomsday City, and more and more people saw you.

But I've seen you in a bad mood.When Feisi died, when Yaowen disappeared, when Luna died, when Xia Sheng died, when Tretia died, when Su Xiaobi jumped... At that time, I felt that you were actually very lonely.

You can be resourceful and shockingly composed at times.There are times when you make mistakes, when you say insincere like a sulking child, and that's when it strikes me that you are real, not a perfect statue. "

"...I didn't say anything insincere." Su Mingan said.

"You're insincere right now," Sen said.

Su Mingan's eyes were not focused.

At this time, he couldn't laugh at all.

"Sorry, but I really want to finish these words," Sen said.

"It's okay." Su Mingan said.

"After tonight, the war must be completely over. At that time..." Sen paused for a while, his voice trembling suddenly:

"Can you bury me...with Xia Sheng?"

When the old man faced death, his calm temperament was much stronger than that of the young.He only said that it could finally be over, that this life was finally here.

Back then he missed the chance to die on the battlefield, and he was worried about it for the rest of his life, and now he still died on the battlefield, which is considered a worthy death.

But when "Xia Sheng" was mentioned, Sen's voice actually trembled and fluctuated.

That name seems to be a memory that he will never forget in his life.

"Yes." Su Mingan agreed.

Sen suddenly held out his hand.

His thin sleeves slid down naturally, revealing a dry and blackened arm like a skeleton, with five fingers raised slightly, as if trying to grab something.

Su Mingan bowed slightly.

So Sen's hand successfully touched his face.

Sen's body is already weak, and he was tortured by the long-term detention. His hands are full of chilblains and scratches.

Before he died, he touched the face of the city lord he admired the most, as if he was looking at a cluster of lights, or as if one light had finally touched another light.

Subsequently,

Little by little, the light fell into nothingness.

"I can finally..."

The old man rubbed his blue lips:

"I went to see Xia Sheng."

"He's had 24 more years off than me,"

"It's finally time to meet him."

Su Mingan's gaze trembled.

Some people say that those who leave the world just do not exist in this one, two, three-dimensional space. In fact, they are in a larger world with more people, but the form of existence has changed.

Sometimes, they are the heavy tombstone, the wind in the ear, the white bird in the sky, the lotus in the pond, and the steaming milk on the table.

And for Sen Kelstya—

Su Mingan bumped straight into the bright red in his pupils.

Those burning flames will be him from now on.

His son Cheng Kelstia and grandson Che Kelstia have fought for the maintenance of human beings all their lives.There is also some kind of burning fire in their eyes.

"Lord, after tonight, go and enjoy the tomorrow brought by human beings, you deserve it." The blood on the old man's mouth is getting more and more:

"Neither for life nor for death, human beings are carrying out their own beliefs. Some people die for love, some people die for happiness, and some people die for suffering. This is too complicated, you must be...more than me Ordinary people’s understanding is a hundred times deeper.”

"So, I will only give you my best wishes..."

After saying this, the old man withdrew his hand.

He solemnly folded his hands, put them on his knees, straightened his back, and lifted his head slightly.

At this moment, his whole body seemed to suddenly reveal a sharp spirit, and the old and pedantic feeling suddenly dissipated.

like this moment,

The newcomer Luvis, who was sitting on a high stool and walked into the tavern towards the 32nd year of cataclysm, and the young beacon leader who turned his head slowly - came back.

Su Mingan has seen him at his sharpest.

If the world is extremely dark, there must always be someone who walks in the front, so that the people behind can look up and still have a back.There must always be a spark of hope, otherwise what is the point of sacrifice?
"Sen Kelstia."

The old man solemnly repeated his name:

"Here's my best wishes to you..."

A large amount of blood gushed out from his mouth, which was already purple-black.

"There is a...memory grave with flowers blooming all over the place..."

"I wish you..."

His eyes were always sharp, and the flame in his eyes did not go out for a moment on this way back.

"This is the last time...lost."

The icy rain poured into Su Mingan's robe, and he no longer knew what was hot and what was cold.The world is hazy, as if connected as one thing.

Babies were crying in the distance, mixed with the sound of wind chimes in residential buildings.The building is always peaceful, and the blood and rain on the street cannot disturb them.

Su Mingan could vaguely smell the fragrance of lilies.

Then he thought of the girl who gave him the first lily, she was Mori's grandson, who died fighting against Tawi's invasion.

Three generations of heroes of the Kelstian family.

"I heard it." Su Mingan said:
"The last words, everyone, I will remember."

The old man was silent.

He also stared straight ahead quietly, ignoring the icy rain that drenched his whole body, as if in some kind of tranquility isolated from the outside world.

After a while, his head drooped little by little, and his eyelids were a little tired, as if a little spark rose from his seat, floating high into the sky, to the high sky——

It seems to be thousands of human spirits who refused to give in in the war and fought to the last moment.

But Su Mingan's footsteps finally stopped, and the wheelchair was pushed back into the church at this moment, crushing the red carpet full of blood.The warm yellow light from the dome shines on his shoulders, and the old man in the wheelchair with his head hanging down, haloing his gray hair like a circle of golden white sun.

Su Mingan's gaze gradually cleared up, and then slowly lifted up.

Only then did he discover that the corpses of soldiers in the church extended from the door to the direction of the back room—they should have pushed Sen into the back room with a strong structure at the moment the church collapsed, allowing Sen to live for more than a dozen years. minute.

Sen's death has no earth-shattering value. Like most ordinary people, he died for the sake of the overall situation, but he cherishes it very much.

He is like a microcosm of countless ordinary soldiers.

"..."

Su Mingan couldn't see the old man's expression at the last moment.

The light was dazzling, and Sen Kelstia's sitting posture was maintained in the most upright form, with his back straight, his hands folded, and the silver ring on his ring finger engraved with his lover's name.

under the brilliant light,

The old man and the hundreds of soldiers who died around him,
— like a hundred monuments to humanity.

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Warriors return to the battlefield after all,
Those in the same robe build monuments together.

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"Ding dong!"

[You have achieved (Sen Kelstia) character ending: HE Monument]

【(monument):
"I have spanned a long time, witnessed countless deaths, and even my black hair has been dyed white by the years."

"From youth to sixtieth year, I have witnessed the long-term changes in this world."

"The lord who is rumored to be immortal is right in front of me."

"I want to ask you—"

"How is this world? Is it a beautiful world? Is it your favorite world?"

"If you like this, I'd be honored."

"If you look up and see the flowers all over the hills—"

"You must see it,"

"On the field, there are countless monuments facing you. They are all like me, full of joy in this beautiful world."

"I wish this scene of flowers blooming everywhere,"

"It will remain in your long memory forever."

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[Main quest · "All things come to life" completion progress (3/8)]

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[The Ring of Time (Purple Level) has been upgraded to lv.6. 】

(End of this chapter)